Fish out of water, or whale of a time?

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AT 17, Lee Sharpe burst on to the club scene with Manchester United. At 19, he won the first of his eight England caps, against Ireland. At 31, he is about to enter the next — and maybe the most startling, perhaps even the concluding — phase of his career. He is to sign for Grindavik in Iceland.

Quite what has attracted Sharpe, the consummate party animal, to the quiet fishing town (pop: 2,300), located in the south west of the island, 4km from the renowned Blue Lagoon health spa, has yet to be recorded. But Grindavik was agog yesterday.